Map point: His family home on Lot 16, Conc 4, Stanhope - Mountainside Farm

Date of birth: 10 Dec 1886

Birthplace: Carnarvon, Ontario

Occupation and residence on enlistment:  Farmer, Carnarvon

Enlistment date and place: 11 Jan 1918, Kingston, Ontario

Regimental service #:3056095

Battalion: 1st Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, C.E.F.

Notes on war service: He was Struck off Strength and Demobilized in Barriefield, Ontario on 9 Sep 1918, so he did not have the opportunity to serve overseas.

Killed in action? :No

Notes on life after the war: See "A 1978 Interview with Oscar Sisson" in Local Lore

Link to digitized service file at Library & Archives Canada

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands Family Tree website

Information source: LIbrary & Archives Canada, Personnel Records of the First World War

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